Fierce Horror Dorm: Take a Concubine to Get Stronger

At that moment, commotion came from the far end of the corridor.

Li Shuwen, Zhai Ren and the other floor leaders arrived with their teams, and members of the Neighborhood Committee came too.

They were all heading into the water to see what was really going on.

The Neighborhood Committee members didn’t broker anything; they just saw several floor leaders showing intent in the chat room, so they sent some people over.

Without an order from Demon King Castle, Zhou Ye and the others wouldn’t rashly gather other players to act, because that would cause trouble and shoulder unnecessary responsibility.

Mutual help and win-win cooperation are essential for a dormitory building to survive.

Those willing to help would naturally go.

No amount of persuasion would work on people without that awareness.

If the Neighborhood Committee charged out at every incident, it would be thankless toil.

Zhang Dahai stood in the corridor watching Bai Wuya and the others head downstairs with great momentum, but he kept his distance.

Likewise, he didn’t want to go into the water.

He had a constant feeling that there was great danger beneath the surface.

…

Tenth floor.

All sides converged.

The floor leaders organized clear-and-kill squads and gathered on the tenth floor.

When humans coordinate, there’s a routine: liaison, finalizing plans, and the rally.

It was now time for the rally.

Over a hundred elite players were about to set out.

Saving others was also saving themselves; if they didn’t wipe the monsters out before they swarmed, it would only get harder later.

“Those lice are only level four or five small mobs, one stomp and you can crush a whole group!”

“Kill the lice first. They reproduce from the bodies. Leave the frog monsters alive for now so we can catch them together, then put the corpses into backpacks!”

“I’ll lead. I have mastery of diving!”

The players shouted excitedly, and a smile appeared on Li Shuwen’s face.

After he died, he would resurrect in Xu Lang’s dream.

So, he was actually the least afraid of death.

“Look, Minister Yaxuan is here!”

A burst of exclamations rose from the crowd as the players gathered along one side of the corridor parted to let a group of female players through.

At the head was Deputy Minister Cao Yaxuan of the Inspection Department.

“Minister Yaxuan.”

Neighborhood Committee members immediately stepped forward to greet her.

These people were Demon King Castle’s direct forces.

Cao Yaxuan glanced over and saw Li Shuwen, Zheng Kai, and Bai Wuya, then asked, “Are you ready to go into the water?”

“Yes!” Li Shuwen replied.

He noticed Wu Huihui and other twentieth-floor players trailing behind Cao Yaxuan, players who would likely go into the water as well.

Although the twentieth floor hadn’t coordinated with them beforehand, Wu Huihui was always enthusiastic.

“Did the scouts find any dangers besides frog monsters and lice?” Cao Yaxuan asked.

Li Shuwen considered his words for a moment and shook his head.

“No. For now, those are the only two monster types under the water.”

“But frog monsters and lice are symbiotic; when frog monsters die, lice will massively reproduce.”

“We’ll deal with the lice first on this trip.”

Cao Yaxuan frowned. “Are you sure there are no other dangers? Have you checked the water quality?”

“There’s only the mutated buff from the blood rain. No other hazards have been found for now,” a Neighborhood Committee member took the reply.

Cao Yaxuan nodded. “Alright, you go then. Surface if anything abnormal happens and I’ll intervene.”

Hearing that promise sent a jolt through everyone.

Of course, a few people were displeased but didn’t dare show it.

Why don’t you go down yourself? Just watch from above!

These people’s awareness was too low; their SAN values wouldn’t be high either.

In peacetime battles, top leaders don’t serve as cannon fodder. Now in the Dorm Survival Game, expecting rulers to lead from the front was simply foolish—unable to read the situation.

The fact that mid-level floor leaders like Li Shuwen and Zheng Kai were willing to go along was already generous.

Mainly they feared ordinary players couldn’t maintain order; otherwise, who would willingly dive in?

Next, over a hundred players formed five-person teams and jumped into the water one after another, like dumplings tossed in.

…

Half an hour later, over a hundred players returned.

Seven people had died.

This casualty count was within an acceptable range.

The lice crisis was basically resolved, and many frog monsters had been captured; their corpses were brought back.

If frog monsters tried to break the door again later, driving them off without killing would suffice.

“No telling when this blood rain will end. If it really keeps up for ten days or half a month, the Mad King Building truly won’t hold!”

In the tenth-floor corridor, many players came to watch, voicing their worries.

At the current pace, it would take less than ten days for the whole Mad King Building to be completely submerged.

Who knew what new dangers might emerge from the blood river then? The number of frog monsters might surge.

Once the main gate fell, they’d have to go into the Demon Box World.

But there was a major downside.

If they couldn’t return to the dorm in a short time, they would lose their identity as Mad King Building players.

And once that identity was lost, their SAN value would keep dropping!

Like in the previous round—if the Mechanical Army had besieged the building a bit longer, Xu Lang would not have been able to return them to the dormitory.

Everyone’s fate would have been the same.

They would become Mad Vanguards!

Seeing the water rising, a high-floor player shouted, “The water rose again. Any sixth-floor players want to take shelter in my dorm?”

“Damn it, Ma Haotian, is your dorm out of fertilizer again? Stop tricking players into your room!”

“This time I’m sincere.”

“Sincere or not, I’m not going. What if we can’t get back after going to your dorm?”

“Then become my tenant!”

“Free?”

“Charged by the second.”

“Goddamn it!”

“……”

As the water rose, many bottom-tier players panicked. Some people noticed and got crooked ideas.

Although those people might later get into trouble with their floor leaders, they had their own leaders too—who were they afraid of?

Besides, players weren’t good at attacking buildings. Trap people, hide in a dorm, wait a while, and things would die down.

In the end, people mostly cared about themselves. Few would sacrifice everything to avenge someone else.

Knock, knock, knock~

Dorm 118’s door was knocked, and the door opened immediately.

That meant the opener had been waiting behind the door.

“Snake Lord, want to head to the higher floors?” The knocker squeezed into the room and shut the door behind him.

He was a strange-looking man with holes of various sizes across his body.

Like Snake Lord, he had been recruited through the Gate of Ten Thousand Lies.

“You have connections?” Snake Lord asked coldly.

He didn’t want to become someone else’s tenant, at the mercy of others.

Wu Man had long grown used to his friend’s attitude and grinned, showing a row of big white teeth. “We’ll just seize them. Everyone can be a dorm owner!”

“Target?” Snake Lord asked, then added, “Just the two of us?”

“Of course not. I’ll pull together a small group in a moment.” Wu Man shook his head. “The target is the nineteenth floor. The nineteenth-floor leader is a reclusive female caster.”

Snake Lord’s expression shifted. “That’s the factory head of the Puppet Factory, isn’t it!?”

Other factory heads were members of Demon King Castle, and Pandora serving as Puppet Factory Head meant she had a special relationship with Xu Lang.

Although Snake Lord had accepted the Kill the Cheater mission, he didn’t want an early confrontation with Xu Lang.

“Heh heh, don’t worry. We’ve got a second target.” Wu Man smiled. “The fifteenth-floor leader Zhang Sanfeng, though recognized by the Neighborhood Committee, has a floor full of opportunists who aren’t united.”

The fifteenth floor had the most brokers, informants, and merchants.

Seeing Snake Lord still hesitate, Wu Man went on, “Staying in the mid- and lower-floors is just waiting to die. Do you really believe that dorm owner will save us in the end?”

Snake Lord asked, “When do we move?”

Then he quickly added, “I only kill bad people.”

“Hahaha, Snake Lord, you’re adorably naive. Where in the Mad King Building are there any good people!” Wu Man laughed loudly.

Seeing Wu Man’s vulgar behavior, Snake Lord realized this guy must be manipulating his SAN value too, and his heart sank.

Why weren’t there any normal people in the Mad King Building?